Category: BME News

Congratulations to BME undergrad student Marion Hagstrom and a team of seven students for winning the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) Global Prize at the 2022 Healthcare Hackathon. Health Hackathon 2022 is an innovation competition where talented and enthusiastic students gather to provide practical solutions for better healthcare. The theme for this year’s event […]

We will update this throughout March! Check back to see what inspires our faculty, students and staff! Faculty contributions: Dr. Wesley Bolch’s article published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology, is a feature on women in the field of radiobiology. “The enduring legacy of Marie Curie: impacts of radium in 21st century radiological and […]

Dr. Aysegul Gunduz, associate professor, Fixel Brain Mapping Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor and UF Term Professor, has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. AIMBE Fellows represent the top 2% of medical and biological engineers, who are recognized for their contributions to engineering and medical research, […]

UF News By Jill Pease University of Florida researchers joined forces with scientists at NVIDIA, UF’s partner in its artificial intelligence initiative, and the OpenACC organization to significantly accelerate brain science as part of the Georgia Tech GPU Hackathon held last month. The hackathon is designed to help computational scientists and researchers optimize their applications. […]

Congratulations to Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks, Ph.D., assistant professor, for having a collaborative group paper accepted in Cancer Research titled, Quantification of T- and B-cell immune receptor distribution diversity characterizes immune cell infiltration and lymphocyte heterogeneity in clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The collaborative team from the University of Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of […]

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Furtney, Instructional Assistant Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator, for receiving the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award for 2021-2022. Undergraduate Teacher of the Year is awarded to faculty who excel in the classroom. On the very first day of the semester, Furtney tells her students that she […]

UF News: by Jill Pease With advancements in HIV treatments, people with HIV are living longer. More than half of Americans with HIV are now over age 50. Yet with longer lives comes an additional health concern. As people living with HIV age, about half will experience some sort of cognitive decline. Now, with the […]

Congratulations to UF BME undergrad Syed Tahir for being selected for the 2022 Emerging Scholars Program to work under the supervision of Dr. Meghan Ferrall-Fairbanks. The Emerging Scholars Program from the UF Center for Undergraduate Research was established to introduce outstanding full-time undergraduate students to the exciting world of academic research. In this program, students […]

A team of biomedical engineering students competed for the 2020-2021 BMES Student Design Competition, sponsored by Medtronic. This year’s competition was broken down into four tracks, mechanical/electrical, electrical/computer science, chemical/biological, anything COVID-19 geared. Two UF teams were selected as finalists for the final competition, Team Game of Stones & Team Fast and Fusion.  Top Finalists […]